[GNC] Stock sell/buy

[Deva PS]

Fred,

I’m not clear as to why the shares bought on 7/26/2026 into VMFXX is showing 10,837.70. As you noted, it should be 4,000 instead (the sale proceeds from gold etf)? If it’s showing 10,837.70, then perhaps you did a duplicate transaction and forgot to modify the shares amount?

Can you try this? I don’t use trading accounts, so when I have a situation like you described, I do it as follows:

Don’t combine the sell on gold etf and the corresponding buy on VMFXX in a single transaction. 

Instead, push the sale proceeds from gold etf into a temporary suspense account, say Cash (IRA). 

Then record the buy on VMFXX by sourcing funds from the suspense account. 

Cheers. 

> On 26 Jul 2026, at 8:07 AM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
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> From: Fred Tydeman <tydeman.fred at gmail.com>
> To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Stock sell/buy
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> Attached is a screen shot of two transactions where I sold some of an ETF
> and sent the proceeds to the money market account.
> The sale on 7/23 shows the money market price as 1.00 (after I manually
> fixed it).
> The sale on 7/26 was a test done today to see what it would do.
> The price and share amount for the money market are wrong.
> I notice that the money market share amount on 7/26 is the same as on 7/23
> (which makes no sense).